formulate

When you present reasons why you believe in something, you argue for it. For example, writing an editorial to your local newspaper is a great way to argue for the creation of a dog park in your town.

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formulate (ˈfɔːmjʊˌleɪt)

—vb
1.	to put into or express in systematic terms; express in or as if in a formula
2.	to devise

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—n

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formulate

1860, to express in a formula, from formula + -ate. Related: Formulated; formulating.

Example sentences

The committee will outline a situation and ask you to formulate a plan that deals with the problem.

The article is a challenge to others to formulate a shared narrative that will enhance the prospects of success.

The advantage is that it enables one to properly formulate aims and helps with decision taking.

In his first stage, the people express frustrations by the difficulty to formulate and to express their thoughts.

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"The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifyability. We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express—that is, if he knows what observations would lead him, under certain conditions, to accept the proposition as true, or reject it as being false.... To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone."

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